#zealandia — Public Fediverse posts
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🌍🗺️ Scientists in #NewZealand led an international team to map the boundaries of a massive #underwater landmass.
By analyzing rock samples dredged from the ocean floor alongside satellite #data, researchers confirmed this crustal block sits distinct from #Australia. The resulting map provides a complete picture of how this continent separated from #Gondwana millions of years ago.
#geology #zealandia #earthscience #maps #cartography #continents #tectonics #oceans #geography #gns #research #science
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Earth’s Hidden Eighth Continent Is No Longer Lost
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Zealandia, widely described in current geological literature as Earth’s…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #EighthContinent #GNSScience #Researchers #sedimentarybasins #Zealandia
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Scientists Complete Mapping of Earth's Submerged Eighth Continent, Zealandia
📰 Original title: Earth’s Hidden Eighth Continent Is No Longer Lost
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/scientists-complete-mapping-of-earth-s-submerged-eighth-continent-zealandia.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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Scientists Complete Mapping of Earth's Submerged Eighth Continent, Zealandia
📰 Original title: Earth’s Hidden Eighth Continent Is No Longer Lost
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/scientists-complete-mapping-of-earth-s-submerged-eighth-continent-zealandia.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social
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Scientists discover Earth has a hidden eighth continent
For centuries, humanity believed Earth had only seven continents, but scientists now say a massive hidden landmass nearly…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #Earth #eighthcontinent #geologicalfindings #landmass #Researchers #scientists #sevencontinents #submergedcontinent #Zealandia
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/478466/ Scientists discover Earth has a hidden eighth continent #Earth #EighthContinent #Éire #GeologicalFindings #IE #Ireland #landmass #Researchers #Science #Scientists #SevenContinents #SubmergedContinent #Zealandia
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One thing that amazes me with #New Zealand is how many species they've brought back from near #extinction and are continuing to grow their numbers of. A pair of takahe at #Zealandia Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellington have had a baby chick. They were believed to be extinct until 1948. Breeding programs were set up on sanctuary islands in the 1980s, and today there are about 500 takahe. I've seen the pair at Zealandia, who are hilariously feisty toward the keepers, and 8 or so on Tiritiri Matangi Island. If you haven't seen them in person, it's definitely a good excuse for an adventure. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/582469/takahe-pair-thought-to-be-infertile-hatch-chick-at-zealandia
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This story made my day. I keep going back to look at the photos again. A Christmas miracle indeed. #Zealandia #takahē
https://www.visitzealandia.com/member-news/a-christmas-miracle/
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#KnowledgeBit: #Zealandia is an almost entirely submerged mass of continental crust that subsided after breaking away from Gondwanaland 83 - 79 million years ago. It has been described variously as a submerged continent, a continental fragment (or microcontinent), and a continent.
It is sometimes referred as the "#EighthContinent of the world".
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Earth’s 8th Continent Buried Under The Pacific Finally Mapped By Scientists [Zealandia / Te Riu-a-Māui - “Finally”? ~wink~]
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https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/earth-8th-continent-finally-mapped/ <-- shared (somewhat) technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC007961 <-- shared 2023 paper
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https://youtu.be/DDbc4K7bgnA?si=EZFmmPFybPLLyND7 <-- shared animation
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"KEY POINTS
• Basalts and pebbly to cobbly sandstones have been dredged from the Fairway Ridge, Coral Sea
• Dating of the rocks and interpretation of magnetic anomalies allow mapping of major geological units across North Zealandia
• This work completes offshore reconnaissance geological mapping of the entire 5 million square km Zealandia continent…”
#geology #doggerland #Zealandia #TeRiuaMaui #godwana #godwanaland #cretaceous #mapping #geologicmapping #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #NewZealand #SouthPacific #continent #sampling #sediment #dredging #petrography #geochemistry #isotope #analyses #research #cenozoic #intraplate #platetectonics #tectonics #eocene #remotesensing #geophysics #geomagnetism -
I took my company 'Volunteer Day's at #Zealandia today. If you need to touch @pepperraccoon enamel pins before buying, head along there .. and wander to see real birds at the same time.
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Check out this gorgeous Tui feasting on nectar. The yellow on its beak is pollen.
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Reconnaissance geologic mapping has bounded the mainly submerged eighth continent "Zealandia." This is pretty geeky geology stuff. The linked article explains in layman's terms but includes a link to the technical paper. The field methods and the analytical methods used to classify age date are really interesting. Geeky basic geology lab stuff like looking at thin sections, heavy mineral separation, etc. #geology #tectonics #earth #science #Zealandia #NewZealand
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/earth-s-hidden-eighth-continent-is-no-longer-lost/ar-AA1voZB7?ocid=nl_article_link -
#DidYouKnow: #Zealandia is an almost entirely submerged mass of continental crust that subsided after breaking away from Gondwanaland 83 - 79 million years ago. It has been described variously as a submerged continent, a continental fragment (or microcontinent), and a continent.
It is sometimes referred as the "#EighthContinent of the world".
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#Zealandia
#Continent that had been #missing for 375 years
1.89 million sq. miles
https://www.businesstoday.in/visualstories/news/zealandia-scientists-discover-continent-that-had-been-missing-for-375-years-184104-04-11-2024 -
Really enjoyed the first day of our short week break in Pōneke. Great to catch up with our son (1st year at Uni). Spent the day looking around the #BotanicalGardens and #Zealandia, and reading books before a decent snooze, before a great dinner at Rasa in Cuba Street.
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Geologists Stunned On Discovering A Part Of The Earth That Disappeared 20 Million Years Ago
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https://www.good.is/geologists-stunned-at-discovery-of-earths-ancient-mega-plate-they-didnt-know-about-at-all-ex1 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2023.09.013 <-- shared paper
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https://youtu.be/VyEUWySaFPc?si=rzUiIh14GxmiC0l- <-- reconstruction animation
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #geomagnetism #argoland #kinematicreconstruction #platetectonics #GPlates #junctionregion #PhilippineSeaPlate #Borneo #NewZealand #Japan #Zealandia #Philippines #NewGuinea #junction #subduction #plates #geology #structuralgeology #pontus #pontusplate #paeleogeography #geologichistory #Zealandia #seismology #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #tomography #model #modeling -
#Penguin wing #fossil shows importance of #Zealandia in penguin #evolution https://phys.org/news/2024-08-penguin-wing-fossil-importance-zealandia.html
A new tiny fossil penguin from the Late #Oligocene of #NewZealand and the morphofunctional transition of the penguin wing https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03036758.2024.2362283
Named Pakudyptes hakataramea, the penguin was very small—about the same size as the little blue penguin, the smallest in the world—with anatomical adaptations that allowed it to dive.
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This is the old valve housing at #Zealandia. Used to be a water reservoir now a large bird sanctuary. My grandparents lived in this area of #wellington and they took photos of this too.
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#birbs #birds #birdsong #birdsofMastodon
#Robin #Zealandia #grateful #nature #trees
This little robin seemed to be calling us to come closer. I read later on an info board that they like to find displaced bugs in our wake!
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What a shot!!
We made it along to #Zealandia yesterday and again today - as we entered yesterday the kind person at the counter explained that our ticket was good for two days 😀.
So many amazing sights - saddlebacks, kaka, a takahē, nesting shags and three kakariki chattering in the tree near the path we were on, absolutely exciting to see them all 🥰
#scenery #BeautifulSkies #trees #nature #sanctuary -
Reconnaissance Basement Geology and Tectonics of North Zealandia
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC007961 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #modeling #model #Zealandia #continent #NewZealand #geology #structuralgeology #Gowanda #Gowandaland #rock #dredge #sampling #samples #geochemistry #geochronology #Cretaceous #LostContinent #remotesensing #geomagnetism #geophysics #geologicmap #Mesozoic #Eocene #tectonics
